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Columbus Mileposts

During the 2012 bicentennial year, The Dispatch offered daily "Columbus Mileposts" to reflect on highlights of the past 200 years.

Stories include ones about the 1857 opening of the Statehouse, the 1950 Ohio State Snow Bowl and a 1921 incident in which a giant turtlelike monster reportedly attacked the conductor of an interurban railroad car.

The sole criterion was that each day's article is about an event that happened to a Columbus resident or within the present-day Columbus city limits on that date since the late 1700s.